Women of Middle-earth: The Edain
Tales of the Haladin: Haleth
Haleth's Song
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Overture: The Making of a Song
To wait, to watch, but not to aid: that is what
my fate was to have been.
To wed, to bear children, and then to watch them
fight, while I shrank from battle, and cowered behind walls:
that is what my fate would have been, had I not rebelled.
They sought, my people did, to keep me bound and
behind bars, to not seek glory for myself, and only to stay in a golden
cage.
But I broke free, and though I have suffered through
pain and sorrow, in the end, I would not have taken back a single
moment of my life.
It is I, Haleth, daughter of Haldad and leader of
the Haladin, who tells this tale, a tale of pain and sorrow, but also a
tale of glory and of renown. And though I am mortal, and my life span
is but the blink of an eye to the Eldar, my name will live on forever
in songs and tales, and I will have what I have always wanted.
Immortality.
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